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this is not incredible at allthe immune system is what is called a complex systemit is more than just the sum or adding all the partthere are hundreds of parts and effecting one here can change another therethe best way to think of a complex system is those weird sound generators from the 50s science fiction where the scientist kept changing the knobs and the tone of the sounds kept oscillating and going up and down all over the place, the immune system is like that even with exactly the same inputs there can be variable outputslook up complex system on wikipedia, i posted about this in past

there are hundreds of separate systems that interact in a symphony to make the immune system kill bad things and not distroy the body, that is the hard part telling what is bad and what is not the body - this delicate balance is a symphony of different chemicals, twenty types of cells, tons of systems

also they have completely forgot or ignored or not read about the exhausted cd8 cells from pd-1 the scientists who wrote that paper said ALL vaccine trials would have to be done over because of that discovery, there are many many part of the immune system that are effected in ways they dont understandbut every set back is a huge step forwardbecause it give a clue as to how to move forward and improvedo a search on here for my posts on complexor complex systemsorantibodyormonoclonalevery step is step closerthere are no steps back in science

this is why, in my opinion the vaccine failed, did the researchers see this in a completely different science journal, i doubt it, do they know this, i doubt it, science is progressing so fast they cannot keep up with everythingat some conference 3 years from now at a cocktail party one scientist will walk up and say, i think yourvaccine failed because of this research hopefully they will even meet or read each others papers